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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

buschgardens.com

Theme Parks & Attractions in Tampa Bay and Williamsburg - Busch Gardens

Page Load Speed

5.6 sec in total

First Response

34 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

2.6 sec

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About Website

Visit buschgardens.com now to see the best up-to-date Busch Gardens content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about buschgardens.com

Visit us and experience our animal attractions, exhibits and educational series, with spectacular rides and attractions happening daily. Visit your nearest Busch Gardens theme park in Tampa Bay, Flori...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Buschgardens.com page load time and found that the first response time was 34 ms and then it took 5.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

buschgardens.com performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

86/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value34.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value27.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,050 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.008

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value78.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

buschgardens.com

34 ms

buschgardens.com

433 ms

notice

90 ms

main.css

1144 ms

busch-gardens-brand.css

50 ms

Our browser made a total of 84 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Buschgardens.com, 10% (8 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Buschgardens.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 276.9 kB (1%)

Content Size

27.8 MB

After Optimization

27.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Buschgardens.com main page is 27.8 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 27.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 84.6 kB

  • Original 106.0 kB
  • After minification 101.0 kB
  • After compression 21.4 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 84.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 174.4 kB

  • Original 27.4 MB
  • After minification 27.2 MB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Busch Gardens images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 17.5 kB

  • Original 239.8 kB
  • After minification 239.8 kB
  • After compression 222.3 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 364 B

  • Original 74.7 kB
  • After minification 74.7 kB
  • After compression 74.3 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Buschgardens.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (34%)

Requests Now

80

After Optimization

53

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 80 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Busch Gardens. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

buschgardens.com

buschgardens.com

34 ms

buschgardens.com

buschgardens.com

433 ms

notice

notice

90 ms

main.css

main.css

1144 ms

busch-gardens-brand.css

busch-gardens-brand.css

50 ms

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10197326612.js

27 ms

main.js

main.js

672 ms

v1.7-3281

v1.7-3281

3 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

68 ms

log

log

100 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

63 ms

quantum-seaworld.js

quantum-seaworld.js

167 ms

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bg-hero-desktop-1.png

677 ms

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572 ms

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705 ms

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604 ms

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709 ms

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602 ms

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717 ms

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703 ms

bgt-park-desktop.png

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735 ms

bgt-park-mobile.png

bgt-park-mobile.png

761 ms

bgw-park-desktop.png

bgw-park-desktop.png

790 ms

bgw-park-mobile.png

bgw-park-mobile.png

781 ms

conservation-desktop.png

conservation-desktop.png

852 ms

conservation-mobile.png

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845 ms

camp-and-education.jpg

camp-and-education.jpg

754 ms

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777 ms

orangutans_1900x700.jpg

orangutans_1900x700.jpg

790 ms

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931 ms

elephants_1900x700.jpg

elephants_1900x700.jpg

798 ms

barn_owl_1900x700.jpg

barn_owl_1900x700.jpg

944 ms

gray_wolf_1900x700.jpg

gray_wolf_1900x700.jpg

810 ms

polar_bears_1900x700.jpg

polar_bears_1900x700.jpg

814 ms

sharks_1900x700.jpg

sharks_1900x700.jpg

952 ms

whales_1900x700.jpg

whales_1900x700.jpg

959 ms

harbor_seals_1900x700.jpg

harbor_seals_1900x700.jpg

864 ms

penguins_1900x700.jpg

penguins_1900x700.jpg

874 ms

seaworld-logo-card-desktop.png

seaworld-logo-card-desktop.png

980 ms

seaworld-logo-card-mobile.png

seaworld-logo-card-mobile.png

976 ms

sesame-place-logo-card-desktop.png

sesame-place-logo-card-desktop.png

1012 ms

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1001 ms

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1021 ms

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1042 ms

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1028 ms

aquatica-logo-card-mobile.png

aquatica-logo-card-mobile.png

1046 ms

get

get

22 ms

msschemaloader_buschgardens_min.js

msschemaloader_buschgardens_min.js

526 ms

a10196690105.html

a10196690105.html

703 ms

adventure-island-logo-card-desktop.png

adventure-island-logo-card-desktop.png

1065 ms

js

js

132 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

459 ms

destination

destination

221 ms

destination

destination

220 ms

destination

destination

219 ms

destination

destination

218 ms

i.js

i.js

418 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

356 ms

up_loader.1.1.0.js

up_loader.1.1.0.js

392 ms

events.js

events.js

414 ms

events.js

events.js

413 ms

907 ms

js

js

217 ms

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294 ms

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181 ms

main.MTIyYzc3NzllMQ.js

main.MTIyYzc3NzllMQ.js

88 ms

linkid.js

linkid.js

30 ms

collect

collect

39 ms

collect

collect

75 ms

collect

collect

42 ms

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503 ms

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water-country-logo-card-desktop.png

490 ms

collect

collect

41 ms

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88 ms

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148 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

41 ms

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water-country-logo-card-mobile.png

404 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

39 ms

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660x410_bgw_mobileapp.jpg

478 ms

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app_download_badges.jpg

461 ms

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66 ms

schema.json

schema.json

62 ms

main.js

main.js

45 ms

50 ms

Accessibility Review

buschgardens.com accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

Best Practices

buschgardens.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

buschgardens.com SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Buschgardens.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Buschgardens.com main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

buschgardens.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Busch Gardens. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: